Playing a first-person shooter (FPS) video game alters the neural processes that support spatial selective attention. Our experiment establishes a causal relationship between playing an FPS game and neuroplastic change. Twenty-five participants completed an attentional visual field task while we measured ERPs before and after playing an FPS video game for a cumulative total of 10 hr. Early visu...

Twenty years ago, I would step into my favorite video game arcade, only to find every time that a crowd was already patiently awaiting their turns to get their hands on Nintendo’s Donkey Kong. Since then many games had come and gone, and I never thought another game would ever be more popular. How wrong I was. Fast forward ten years to 1991. Kids skipping school to play this game. Wealthier fol...

Pain perception is thought to emerge from the integrated activity of a distributed brain system, but the relative contribution of the different network nodes is still incompletely understood. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we aimed to identify the more relevant brain regions to explain the time profile of the perceived pain intensity in healthy volunteers, du...

As hemophilia is a chronic bleeding diseaseand can interfere with daily performanceof children, these children require continuoustraining to prevent bleeding and take timely action(1). Since children nurses play an important role inthe education of involved children and their Selfefficacyand also due to today’s approach whichis using educational computer games, the use ofeducational games in re...

Abstract Several marble slabs fashioned like game boards for XII scripta/Alea come from Christian catacombs in Rome. Often deliberately cut or fragmented, they were used as funeral slabs. The general opinion is that these have found a secondary use the context. present paper presents critical discussion of this interpretation. differ several details real boards. Moreover, inscriptions often bet...

dynamic game theory is applied to analyze the timber market in northern iran as a duopsony. the nash equilibrium and the dynamic properties of the system based on marginal adjustments are determined. when timber is sold, the different mills use mixed strategies to give sealed bids. it is found that the decision probability combination of the different mills follow a special form of attractor an...

In this paper the issue of energy efficiency in CDMA wireless data networks is addressed through a game theoretic approach. Building on a recent paper by the first two authors, wherein a non-cooperative game for spreading-code optimization, power control, and receiver design has been proposed to maximize the ratio of data throughput to transmit power for each active user, a stochastic algorithm...

We analyze the problem of packing squares in an online fashion: Given a semi-infinite strip of width 1 and an unknown sequence of squares of side length in [0, 1] that arrive from above, one at a time. The objective is to pack these items as they arrive, minimizing the resulting height. Just like in the classical game of Tetris, each square must be moved along a collision-free path to its final...